Integration of a machine into an existing distributed ledger network

A method for integrating a machine into an existing distributed ledger network, the method comprising:

• networking the machine, by the machine itself, with a machine network including a plurality of networked machines managed by a management system having an integration contract, wherein the machine and the plurality of networked machines each work together as nodes or clients of a node in a distributed ledger network, wherein the machine and the plurality of networked machines each have machine properties as a dataset stored on a respective memory of the respective machine and interchange the machine properties in the machine network, and wherein the machine and the plurality of networked machines each further have a respective normalized smart contract on a same or a further memory;
• interchanging the normalized smart contract by the distributed ledger network;
• providing, by the machine, the respective normalized smart contract to the management system;
• matching, by the management system, the respective normalized smart contract with previous smart contracts already available in the distributed ledger network using the integration contract;
• transforming, depending on availability, the respective normalized smart contract into the distributed ledger network;
• regulating, by the transformed smart contract, a collaboration model between the networked machines;
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• executing the transformed smart contract in the distributed ledger network in a computer-implemented fashion.